The Art of Gratefulness

A Meditative Arfts Retreat at Rolling Ridge
April 11-13, 2008
Retreat House

The Art of Gratefulness

A Meditative Arts Retreat at Rolling Ridge

with Patricia Campbell Carlson,
Margaret Wakeley,
and Lindsay McLaughlin

Friday April 11 - Sunday April 13, 2008


"I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen
and licked out all the pots.
Then I have stood on the peaky mountain
wrapped in rainbows,
with a harp and a sword in my hands."
— Zora Neale Hurston

What does it mean to be grateful through the ups and downs of life? How can we appreciate the gift of each day without minimizing the challenges that face us personally and as a global community? Through the mediums of music, movement, poetry, conversation, and collage we will explore how we even come to ask such questions. In the delicate beauty of the awakening springtime forest and the sacred embrace of encircling hills and streams we will ponder how gratefulness applies to our losses, to our everyday lives, and to our relationships.

Participants are welcome to arrive at the Retreat House between 5 and 7 pm on Friday night. Dinner will be served at 7 pm. The retreat will end with lunch on Sunday. Cost for the weekend is $100.

Please send a $25 deposit to reserve your space. Checks should be made payable to Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community (RRSRC) and mailed to Lindsay McLaughlin, 120 Jubilee Lane, Harpers Ferry, WV 25425. Meals will be healthful and vegetarian. Please let us know if you have any special dietary or other needs. For more information call or email Lindsay McLaughlin at 304-724-1069, lmclaughlin@rollingridge.net.

Workshop leaders:

Patricia Campbell Carlson serves as Executive Director of A Network for Grateful Living (ANG*L), a nonprofit dedicated to gratefulness as the core inspiration for personal change, international cooperation, and sustainable activism in areas of universal concern. She works closely with ANG*L’s founder Br. David Steindl-Rast, a pioneer in the interfaith movement, and greatly values the time she spent in the 1980s as part of Sojourners community in Washington, DC.
Margaret Wakeley wears many hats at ANG*L: administrator, designer, researcher, and first contact for visitors. She has worked extensively as a vocalist across the U.S. and Europe. Now, sticking closer to home, she gets great satisfaction tailoring her repertoire for cabaret benefits for local organizations, where she serves in many volunteer capacities, including Hospicare, the Community School of Music and Arts, and the Unitarian Church in Ithaca, NY.
Lindsay McLaughlin lives and works at Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community and is the arts coordinator for an alternative school for students with emotional disabilities in Silver Spring, MD. She dances professionally with Carla Perlo at Dance Place in Washington, DC and with St. Martin's Liturgical Dance Ministry. She is a writer, editor and mother of three grown sons.

Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community – "Nurturing Persons and Communities" – is an ecumenical Christian retreat center on 1400 acres of forested land between the Blue Ridge and the Shenandoah River, near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

Make your plans now to attend these other retreats sponsored by Rolling Ridge in 2008:

  • Cultivating a Listening Heart: A Silent Retreat At Rolling Ridge, February 8-10, 2008
  • A Day Away for Pastors and Church Leaders: February 11, March 10, April 14 (second Monday of each month)
  • Easter Quiet Days for Holy Week and Stations of the Cross: March 17-21, 2007
  • Children and Ecology: May 9-11, 2008
  • Straw Bale House Building Retreat: June 20-22, August 15-27, 2008
  • Rolling Ridge Music Festival: July 4-6, 2008
  • Straw Bale House Building Retreat: August 10-12, 2008
  • Annual Labor Day Work Retreat: September 1, 2008
  • Meditative Arts: October 10-12, 2008
  • Rolling Ridge Annual Meeting: November 15, 2008
  • Waiting in Darkness, Carrying the Light: An Advent Retreat on Transition, Loss, Grief and Healing: December 5-7, 2008
  • Or create your own private retreat during the week. We offer spiritual direction and directed retreats for individuals during the week days. Call us for details.
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community web: www.rollingridge.net
Lindsay McLaughlin phone: 304.724.1069
120 Jubilee Lane e-mail: lmclaughlin@rollingridge.net
Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

Easter Quiet Days and Station of the Cross

March 17-21, 2008
Retreat House


Easter Quiet Days
And Stations of the Cross
During Holy Week
At Rolling Ridge Study Retreat

March 17-21, 2007

Monday through Friday
Daily meditations and prayers at 12:00 noon

Good Friday
5:00 pm: Sharing soup and bread together
6:00 pm: Praying the Stations of the Cross

You are warmly invited to participate in any or all of these events

During Holy Week, we invite you to gather with the Rolling Ridge Community for daily meditations and prayers in the Retreat House at 12:00 noon.

There is no registration fee for any of the week's activities. A simple soup and bread meal will be served Friday evening. No meals will be provided the rest of the week, but you are welcome to bring your own provisions. All events will take place at the Retreat House. The Retreat House will be available for retreatants who would like to stay overnight one or more nights during the week.

Please let us know if you will be participating by calling us at 304-725-4172 or emailing us at community@rollingridge.net.

Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community is an ecumenical retreat center nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

A Day Away

For Pastors and Church Leaders
March 10, 2008
10:00 am - 1:00 pm or 4:00 pm
Retreat House

Throughout his ministry, Jesus regularly took time to withdraw to a quiet place, to reflect and pray.

Retreat and rest is vital, and yet busy schedules often prevent us from setting aside the time we need.

We invite you to join us on the second Monday of each month for "A Day Away," a Sabbath day especially set aside for pastors and church leaders at Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community.

 

Rhythm of the Day

We will gather at the Retreat House at 10:00 a.m. for brief input, followed by your own time for prayer and reflection. Lunch will be served at noon. Retreatants may choose to leave at 1:00, or stay until 4:00 to hike the trails, sit quietly in the Meditation Shelter, get creative in the Art Cottage, or settle into a room to journal, rest or pray.

Second Mondays

"A Day Away" for pastors and church leaders will take place the second Monday of each month. The day is offered at no cost to attendees. Donations are accepted. Join us as often as you wish!

RSVP

Please let us know you will be attending by calling 304-724-6653 or emailing us at community@rollingridge.net. But if you forget to let us know in advance, come anyway!

About Rolling Ridge

Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community is a non-profit, ecumenical retreat center, begun in 1986. It is located on 1400 acres of wilderness land in the Blue Ridge mountains. Facilities include a Retreat House, Meditation Shelter, and an Art Cottage.

Private Retreats

In addition, the Retreat House is frequently available during the week for private retreats. Please call the staff community at 304-724-6653 to schedule a time.

Directions

From Charles Town or Martinsburg: Go east on Route 9. After crossing the Shenandoah River, go one mile and then turn right on Mission Road. Go 6.3 miles, and turn left at the Rolling Ridge sign onto the gravel road (still called Mission Road). Go one mile and turn right at the intersection, following Mission Road. Go .3 miles and turn left at Christ Church Road, following the signs for Retreat House.

A Day Away

For Pastors and Church Leaders
February 11, 2008
10:00 am - 1:00 pm or 4:00 pm
Retreat House

Throughout his ministry, Jesus regularly took time to withdraw to a quiet place, to reflect and pray.

Retreat and rest is vital, and yet busy schedules often prevent us from setting aside the time we need.

We invite you to join us on the second Monday of each month for "A Day Away," a Sabbath day especially set aside for pastors and church leaders at Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community.

 

Rhythm of the Day

We will gather at the Retreat House at 10:00 a.m. for brief input, followed by your own time for prayer and reflection. Lunch will be served at noon. Retreatants may choose to leave at 1:00, or stay until 4:00 to hike the trails, sit quietly in the Meditation Shelter, get creative in the Art Cottage, or settle into a room to journal, rest or pray.

Second Mondays

"A Day Away" for pastors and church leaders will take place the second Monday of each month. The day is offered at no cost to attendees. Donations are accepted. Join us as often as you wish!

RSVP

Please let us know you will be attending by calling 304-724-6653 or emailing us at community@rollingridge.net. But if you forget to let us know in advance, come anyway!

About Rolling Ridge

Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community is a non-profit, ecumenical retreat center, begun in 1986. It is located on 1400 acres of wilderness land in the Blue Ridge mountains. Facilities include a Retreat House, Meditation Shelter, and an Art Cottage.

Private Retreats

In addition, the Retreat House is frequently available during the week for private retreats. Please call the staff community at 304-724-6653 to schedule a time.

Directions

From Charles Town or Martinsburg: Go east on Route 9. After crossing the Shenandoah River, go one mile and then turn right on Mission Road. Go 6.3 miles, and turn left at the Rolling Ridge sign onto the gravel road (still called Mission Road). Go one mile and turn right at the intersection, following Mission Road. Go .3 miles and turn left at Christ Church Road, following the signs for Retreat House.

Cultivating a Listening Heart

A Silent Retreat At Rolling Ridge
February 8-10, 2008
5:00 pm Friday night - 2:00 pm Sunday afternoon
Retreat House


Cultivating a Listening Heart

A Silent Retreat At Rolling Ridge
February 8-10, 2008

"It is only in identifying with Christ,
it is only by plunging into the
great silence of God within myself,
that I can love and identify with others."

— Catherine de Hueck Doherty

In the heart of winter’s stillness and at the start of the Lenten season, here is an opportunity to set time apart and come away for awhile to enter into the great silence of God – and seek to become more merciful and loving. Guided by simple spiritual meditations and creative exercises as well as the companioning presence of each other in the silence, we will seek to deepen our ability and willingness to listen truly to the Heart of our hearts.

We will come together Friday night for dinner, an introduction to the theme, and guidance into the Great Silence. Saturday will provide spaciousness in which to rest, reflect, and listen to the Holy – while walking the mountain's wilderness trails, sitting in front of the Retreat House hearth, journaling in your room, praying in the meditation shelter, or playing in the art cottage. We will come out of the silence together Sunday morning around a simple worship service and listening circle.

Participation is limited to a small number, so register soon. The total cost, which includes two nights lodging and six meals, is $100. Contact Trish Stefanik by phone: 304-724-1069 or email: tstefanik@aol.com to reserve a space. Send a $25 deposit (or the entire fee) to RRSRC, c/o Trish Stefanik, 120 Jubilee Lane, Harpers Ferry, WV 25425. See www.rollingridge.net for more information and directions. Please include your contact information, including phone and email, and any dietary or other special needs.

Participants are welcome to arrive at the Retreat House between 5 and 7 p.m. on Friday night. Dinner will be served at 7:00 p.m. The retreat will conclude with lunch on Sunday with departure by 2:00 p.m.

View or print PDF version of retreat flyer, and help us spread the word about the retreat.

Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community – "Nurturing Persons and Communities" – is an ecumenical Christian retreat center on 1400 acres of forested land between the Blue Ridge and the Shenandoah River, near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Trish Stefanik is a contemplative retreat leader, artist, and resident of Rollling Ridge.

Make your plans now to attend these other retreats sponsored by Rolling Ridge in 2008:

  • A Day Away for Pastors and Church Leaders: February 11, March 10, April 14 (second Monday of each month)
  • Easter Quiet Days for Holy Week and Stations of the Cross: March 17-21, 2007
  • The Art of Gratefulness — A Meditative Arts Retreat with Patricia Campbell Carlson, Margaret Wakeley, and Lindsay McLaughlin: April 11-13
  • Children and Ecology: May 9-11, 2008
  • Straw Bale House Building Retreat: June 20-22, August 15-27, 2008
  • Rolling Ridge Music Festival: July 4-6, 2008
  • House Building Retreat: August 10-12, 2008
  • Annual Labor Day Work Retreat: September 1, 2008
  • Meditative Arts: October 10-12, 2008
  • Rolling Ridge Annual Meeting: November 15, 2008
  • Waiting in Darkness, Carrying the Light: An Advent Retreat on Transition, Loss, Grief and Healing: December 5-7, 2008
  • Or create your own private retreat during the week. We offer spiritual direction and directed retreats for individuals during the week days. Call us for details.
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community web: www.rollingridge.net
Trish Stefanik phone: 304.724.1069
120 Jubilee Lane e-mail: tstefanik@aol.com
Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

A Day Away

For Pastors and Church Leaders
January 14, 2008
10:00 am - 1:00 pm or 4:00 pm
Retreat House

Throughout his ministry, Jesus regularly took time to withdraw to a quiet place, to reflect and pray.

Retreat and rest is vital, and yet busy schedules often prevent us from setting aside the time we need.

We invite you to join us on the second Monday of each month for "A Day Away," a Sabbath day especially set aside for pastors and church leaders at Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community.

 

Rhythm of the Day

We will gather at the Retreat House at 10:00 a.m. for brief input, followed by your own time for prayer and reflection. Lunch will be served at noon. Retreatants may choose to leave at 1:00, or stay until 4:00 to hike the trails, sit quietly in the Meditation Shelter, get creative in the Art Cottage, or settle into a room to journal, rest or pray.

Second Mondays

"A Day Away" for pastors and church leaders will take place the second Monday of each month. The day is offered at no cost to attendees. Donations are accepted. Join us as often as you wish!

RSVP

Please let us know you will be attending by calling 304-724-6653 or emailing us at community@rollingridge.net. But if you forget to let us know in advance, come anyway!

About Rolling Ridge

Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community is a non-profit, ecumenical retreat center, begun in 1986. It is located on 1400 acres of wilderness land in the Blue Ridge mountains. Facilities include a Retreat House, Meditation Shelter, and an Art Cottage.

Private Retreats

In addition, the Retreat House is frequently available during the week for private retreats. Please call the staff community at 304-724-6653 to schedule a time.

Directions

From Charles Town or Martinsburg: Go east on Route 9. After crossing the Shenandoah River, go one mile and then turn right on Mission Road. Go 6.3 miles, and turn left at the Rolling Ridge sign onto the gravel road (still called Mission Road). Go one mile and turn right at the intersection, following Mission Road. Go .3 miles and turn left at Christ Church Road, following the signs for Retreat House.

Rolling Ridge Community Retreat

Annual Residential Community Retreat
January 4-6, 2008
Retreat House

A Day Away

For Pastors and Church Leaders
Monday, December 10, 2007
10:00 am - 1:00 pm or 4:00 pm
Retreat House

Throughout his ministry, Jesus regularly took time to withdraw to a quiet place, to reflect and pray.

Retreat and rest is vital, and yet busy schedules often prevent us from setting aside the time we need.

We invite you to join us on the second Monday of each month for "A Day Away," a Sabbath day especially set aside for pastors and church leaders at Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community.

 

Rhythm of the Day

We will gather at the Retreat House at 10:00 a.m. for brief input, followed by your own time for prayer and reflection. Lunch will be served at noon. Retreatants may choose to leave at 1:00, or stay until 4:00 to hike the trails, sit quietly in the Meditation Shelter, get creative in the Art Cottage, or settle into a room to journal, rest or pray.

Second Mondays

"A Day Away" for pastors and church leaders will take place the second Monday of each month. The day is offered at no cost to attendees. Donations are accepted. Join us as often as you wish!

RSVP

Please let us know you will be attending by calling 304-724-6653 or emailing us at community@rollingridge.net. But if you forget to let us know in advance, come anyway!

About Rolling Ridge

Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community is a non-profit, ecumenical retreat center, begun in 1986. It is located on 1400 acres of wilderness land in the Blue Ridge mountains. Facilities include a Retreat House, Meditation Shelter, and an Art Cottage.

Private Retreats

In addition, the Retreat House is frequently available during the week for private retreats. Please call the staff community at 304-724-6653 to schedule a time.

Directions

From Charles Town or Martinsburg: Go east on Route 9. After crossing the Shenandoah River, go one mile and then turn right on Mission Road. Go 6.3 miles, and turn left at the Rolling Ridge sign onto the gravel road (still called Mission Road). Go one mile and turn right at the intersection, following Mission Road. Go .3 miles and turn left at Christ Church Road, following the signs for Retreat House.

Waiting in Darkness, Carrying the Light

Transition, Loss, Grief and Healing
November 30 - December 2
Retreat House


Waiting in Darkness,
Carrying the Light:
Transition, Loss, Grief and Healing

An Advent Spirituality Retreat
at Rolling Ridge
With Janelle Rhorer and Jackie Sabath
Friday November 30 -
Sunday December 2, 2007

 

Truly it is in darkness that one
finds the Light.
So when we are in sorrow,
then the Light is nearest to all of us.
— Meister Eckhart		 Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
— Mary Oliver

As the season of darkness expands, the Light shines even brighter. If you are searching in darkness for the Light, struggling with a transition or loss of any kind, join us for an Advent weekend to be still, to listen, to engage your story, to hold both joy and sorrow in the Light of compassion and communion. In the sacred space of near-winter forest we will work with the transformative process of grief — the mystery of holding fast and letting go — through story, silence, readings, music, art and the beauty of the natural world. And perhaps we will glean insight about the gift in that box full of darkness.

Participants are welcome to arrive at the Retreat House between 5 and 7 pm on Friday night. Dinner will be served at 7 pm. The retreat will end with lunch on Sunday. Cost for the weekend is $100. Scholarships are available. Please send a $25 deposit to reserve your space. Checks should be made payable to Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community (RRSRC) and mailed to Jackie Sabath, 129 Jubilee Lane, Harpers Ferry, WV 25425. Please let us know if you have any special dietary or other needs. For more information call or email Jackie Sabath at 304-261-2653, jsabath@rollingridge.net.

Janelle Rhorer is a Pastoral Counselor in-training at Loyola College and has been coming to retreats at Rolling Ridge for several years.

Jackie Sabath lives and works at Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community and as a licensed Pastoral Counselor in WV and MD.

A Day Away

For Pastors and Church Leaders
Monday, November 12, 2007
10:00 am - 1:00 pm or 4:00 pm
Retreat House

Throughout his ministry, Jesus regularly took time to withdraw to a quiet place, to reflect and pray.

Retreat and rest is vital, and yet busy schedules often prevent us from setting aside the time we need.

We invite you to join us on the second Monday of each month for "A Day Away," a Sabbath day especially set aside for pastors and church leaders at Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community.

 

Rhythm of the Day

We will gather at the Retreat House at 10:00 a.m. for brief input, followed by your own time for prayer and reflection. Lunch will be served at noon. Retreatants may choose to leave at 1:00, or stay until 4:00 to hike the trails, sit quietly in the Meditation Shelter, get creative in the Art Cottage, or settle into a room to journal, rest or pray.

Second Mondays

"A Day Away" for pastors and church leaders will take place the second Monday of each month. The day is offered at no cost to attendees. Donations are accepted. Join us as often as you wish!

RSVP

Please let us know you will be attending by calling 304-724-6653 or emailing us at community@rollingridge.net. But if you forget to let us know in advance, come anyway!

About Rolling Ridge

Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community is a non-profit, ecumenical retreat center, begun in 1986. It is located on 1400 acres of wilderness land in the Blue Ridge mountains. Facilities include a Retreat House, Meditation Shelter, and an Art Cottage.

Private Retreats

In addition, the Retreat House is frequently available during the week for private retreats. Please call the staff community at 304-724-6653 to schedule a time.

Directions

From Charles Town or Martinsburg: Go east on Route 9. After crossing the Shenandoah River, go one mile and then turn right on Mission Road. Go 6.3 miles, and turn left at the Rolling Ridge sign onto the gravel road (still called Mission Road). Go one mile and turn right at the intersection, following Mission Road. Go .3 miles and turn left at Christ Church Road, following the signs for Retreat House.

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